• biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    Have people somehow forgotten that VPNs exist? Like millions are moving to rednote but the easier way is to literally just, at minimum, get a shitty free VPN, and still have access to tiktok.

    Personally tho, I’d probably opt for a cloud server VPN if I really needed one.

    Edit: this was a stupid take, I forgot the app would be removed from devices and that it will cause inconvenience.

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      18 hours ago

      You vastly overestimate the average person’s technical ability.

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        18 hours ago

        Honestly, true. I must be underestimating how tired I am and overestimating how much brain power I got left because, I must say, I barely had a single thought when typing that.

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      17 hours ago

      Any roadblock in using a social media will turn off 90% of the users.
      Which means the creators will be gone, too.
      Sure, you could connect to it via VPN, but most of the content you like won’t be there anymore.

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        9 hours ago

        I fully agree with that, and I was wrong in assuming that it’d be very simple. In my country, we only got online piracy firewalled, so I don’t have experience with apps or other kinds of websites getting banned, and somehow I assumed that most of the demographics of a service would try and use it a different way just like how we use VPNs to hop on the pirate bays, but that isn’t the case.